[Anonymous February 28, 1997 at 2:01 am Post count: 93172]

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I’ve read in former postings that others have tried press-on prisms…
well – now it’s my turn. I will be having them put on my glasses
tomorrow. My brother, who is in medical school to become an
optometrist, said I didn’t need them. He said their are actual eye
exercises you can do to correct the problem.. well, I’m opting for
the prisms. I’d like to hear from others who have tried them.. did
they work?

[Anonymous February 28, 1997 at 8:43 am Post count: 93172]

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Dear Ms. Goiter,

Just got my press-ons a couple of weeks ago. They help. Had ground
in prisms and double vision returned. The only problem seems to be a
floating hazy line of vision which makes only close reading difficult.
When I removed the left press-on that went away. Good luck.

Julie

[Anonymous February 28, 1997 at 10:23 am Post count: 93172]

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One ofthe first things we are told is eye exercises should help. And they
do to some extent but only some. For a lazy eye like a child gets excercises
work well. For GD folds the problem IS NOT a lazy muscle. The problem is a
muscle that is full of scar tissue and it’s mobility is decreased. How exercises
help is the brain can make up the difference between what it sees and what it
thinks it sees. For example the eye might be off axis a bit and both eyes
do not look at the same spot (non-binocular vision). The brain with some help
can adjust for the offset vision and make it one not double. When the ovset
axis gets to far that the brain can’t fix it, its time for prisms or strabismus
surgery. Hope this helps to explain things a little better.

Love to all Jake
Achgook

[Anonymous February 28, 1997 at 2:03 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164347

I have posted before about my having contact lenses with prisms. Actually I believe only one lense has a prism, but somehow it corrests my double vision. I wonder if anyone else has this, and if not why not?I am so grateful to be able to wear them, I hope it would work for other people too. Susan

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